US telecommunications giant AT&T has agreed to acquire Leap Wireless for $15 per share in cash, valuing the prepaid mobile operator at about $1.2bn (£800m). The move comes amid continued consolidation and restructuring in the ...
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At the SEMICON West trade show in San Francisco (9-11 July), Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - as well as concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar ...
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In a survey among participants at LTE World Summit, Flash Networks, a provider of mobile Internet optimization and monetization solutions, revealed that while 50 percent of the executives surveyed rated their network as "very fast" (20mps ...
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LG is using a new video to promote an Aug. 7 event in New York City, evidently to unveil its new G2 smartphone running a faster Snapdragon 800 processor. The G2 would be the successor to the Optimus G, first launched last September with a ...
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SoftBank plans to invest $16 billion in capital improvements at Sprint in the next two years, CEO Masayoshi Son said days before the acquisition closes on Wednesday. Separately, as expected, Clearwire's shareholders on Monday approved ...
Clearwire shareholders approved Sprint Nextel's takeover of their company on Monday, ending a saga that had included years of uncertainty and finally a bidding war for the spectrum-rich wireless network operator. Sprint co-founded ...
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The technology to implement Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) is maturing , but mobile operators won't roll out telephony services in earnest until 2015. At the same time apps like Skype and Fring are growing quickly in popularity, according to ...
Fabless envelope tracking (ET) semiconductor firm Nujira Ltd of Cambridge, UK and specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc ...
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Chinese communications providers Huawei and China Mobile have successfully deployed 4G coverage on Mount Everest, some 5,200 metres above sea level. The two firms demonstrated a series of new 4G services at a ceremony marking the launch ...
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Taiwan's industrial chain revealed that the second generation of Nexus 7 is still produced by Asus and it is expected to be released in July. Currently, an unknown tablet in the codename of ASUS K009 has passed the Bluetooth SIG Bluetooth ...
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The Strategy Analytics forecast, "Handset Data Traffic (2001-2017)," predicts strong growth in data traffic to mobile phones for the coming 5 years. This presents network challenges for carriers to ensure end user satisfaction with ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren,NJ,USA has introduced two new power amplifiers(PAs)optimized for WCDMA,HSPA,and LTE small-cell applications,including ...
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Nokia is to acquire Siemens' 50% stake in joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks, which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Finnish company after the transaction is completed. The handset maker is paying $2.2 billion to acquire the ...
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NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems, has announced the first shipments ...
Nokia has bought Siemens' 50 per cent stake in Nokia-Siemens Networks (NSN) for €1.7bn, enabling it to re-take full control of its telecoms network business. "With its clear strategic focus and strong leadership team, Nokia Siemens ...
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